"If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly."
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
True?
False?
Somewhere in between?
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I think it is true. You have to laugh and enjoy yourself. And there is the clause that you have to try to do it well before you can learn to do it badly.
Soli Deo Gloria Forever,
Zach Ivins
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I think it depends on what it is that you're doing badly.
In some areas, it's important to be content with the "measure of grace" we've been given; but with other things I think it is vital that we always strive for better - to never be complacent in ourselves and where we are.
But I think as we strive for that "better" ground, we shouldn't be miserable and whiny - so I guess we should stay somewhere in between. Enjoying where we are, as we strive to no longer be where we are.
Sometimes I wonder if I make any sense at all :-)
But thank you for making me think!
~Grace
It's like the quote, "Anything worth doing, is worth doing poorly." And the quote, "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
So somewhere in between, leaning towards true. =D
As Teddy said "“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
or
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
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